Approximately 50 copies of John Ford's classic "DRUMS ALONG THE MOHAWK" remain in the SAE sale...and owing to some order cancellations last night there are still 10 copies of "OLIVER!" available for those who missed out.
I just checked SAE. It looks like both Oliver! (again) and Drums Along the Mohawk are gone now. Neither one comes up in a search, though oddly, if you put (at least at the moment) "Drums" in the search box, it will offer the TT release as an option in the drop-down, but then hitting the "search" button yields no results.
It's amazing how most TT titles, regardless of how long they've been available, sell out in about 24 hours once they get to about 50 copies left. I'm hoping it's procrastinators and not scalpers who are picking up these last few copies.
Poor Oliver! That kid doesn't know if he's coming or going. It might be the first TT title that has sold out several times and still has a few copies left
Sold out now. I bought Desiree and Oliver yesterday.
I just put in my last order of the sale. I'm really excited to get two of Truffaut's (The Bride Who Wore Black and Adele H.) that I never got around to on DVD.
The Facebook post about JANE EYRE suggests it would be the 20th sell-out, but the post on the sale thread with all the covers counts 18. Has an 19th title been unaccounted for? Is there a title with fewer copies left than JANE EYRE that will sell out next?
EDIT: Never mind. That post was missing the Screen Archives sell-out of MISSISSIPPI BURNING.
I ended up tacking on Moby Dick at the end of my order. The big discounts on the other titles more than offset paying full price for one of them. Plus, it feels kind of nice to support TT, especially on a great title like Moby Dick, and it will be nice to have one so soon after being released. Glad to hear it is selling so well too, gives me hope that we'll see some other great older films soon.
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All I know, is that with my last order of 7 titles, they charged me $13.20 to ship to Canada, including tracking info.
I just ordered 4 Warner Archive Titles from Amazon.com, shipping for that was $12.95 plus an $8 customs deposit (which I may only get partially refunded) and no doubt my order will be shipped in a padded envelope instead of a cardboard box.
Presuming the latter gets here tomorrow (when it's scheduled to), that's a two week wait which is equivalent to what I waited for my TT order.
Just an update to this earlier post of mine. The amazon.com order I talked about here with four titles arrived yesterday and as I anticipated they were in a large padded envelope where they were easily able to slide around. The envelope was beat to hell because, at the very least, the mailman shoved it in my little mailbox pigeonhole instead of the separate parcel area. Thankfully none of the items were damaged but a couple had that look of having had a bit of pressure applied to them so they kind of look "pushed in".
And all this for MORE shipping fees than what I paid for SAE to pack 7 titles in a sturdy cardboard box, shipped with some semblance of care that the items arrive unharmed.
Nice piece on Martin Ritt and Stanley & Iris from TT's website and FB page. They advise of another Ritt film later in 2017. Hopefully perhaps The Long Hot Summer. I'd love Hud, but that is Paramount.
When Martin Ritt (1914-1990) died 26 years ago today, it meant that the last of his 26 theatrical features was the one released to poor critical and box-office response just 10 months prior, Stanley & Iris (1990). Like the troubles Ritt himself had being blacklisted between 1952 and 1956 from working in television because of prior loose ties with Communist causes, the movie’s disappointing critical treatment and box-office reception were undeserved. While it diverged sharply from Pat Barker's British source novel Union Street, it was, in the director’s hands as well as those of his long-time collaborators, the screenwriting adaptation team of Irving Ravetch and Harriet Frank Jr., clearly a labor of love for this veteran team whose eight-film association spanned 32 years and yielded great performances from such cinematic legends as Paul Newman (The Long Hot Summer and Hud), Sally Field (Norma Rae) and James Garner (Murphy’s Romance). Double Academy Award® winners Jane Fonda and Robert De Niro, playing the two title characters, wanted to work with “actor’s director” Ritt on what became this mature, working-class love story with a stirring social message element. Baked-goods factory worker Iris, a widow with a houseful of family dependents, is attracted to affable cafeteria cook Stanley, but her involvement with him leads to the discovery of his long-kept secret, that because of his unsettled upbringing never learned reading and writing skills in a stable educational environment, and this causes him to lose his job. The solitary Stanley reaches out to Iris to teach him to read, and a faltering, tentative romance develops between two guarded people desperately bogged down by pressing family responsibilities (Stanley by his ailing father, Iris by her rebellious daughter and out-of-work sister and brother-in-law) and needing to open up to new life opportunities. Filming was divided between the scenic byways of Waterbury, Connecticut (where anti-Fonda Vietnam War veterans disrupted the shoot at times), and Toronto, Canada, but the dedication of Ritt and his crew (including the great cinematographer Donald McAlpine and production designer Joel Schiller) kept the bustling workplace and cramped home environments dynamically lived-in and realistic. As Peter Flint wrote in The New York Times obituary that ran just days after Ritt’s death, he was “a director admired for making films that explored moral choices and reflected concern for racially and economically oppressed people. Most of his films were quietly moving studies of human relationships, punctuated by hits that gave the husky, tough-minded director the freedom to deal with social issues and the alienation of others.” Featuring a marvelously understated and moodily engaging score by John Williams and with a strong supporting ensemble populated by Swoosie Kurtz, Martha Plimpton, Harley Cross, Jamey Sheridan, Feodor Chaliapin and Zohra Lampert, Stanley & Iris is wholly, charmingly and movingly in keeping with that assessment. Twilight Time’s hi-def Blu-ray comes with the Williams score on an Isolated Track and an enlightening Audio Commentary by resident and quite literate TT scholars Julie Kirgo and Nick Redman when it arrives January 17. Preorders open January 4. Three other fine examples of Ritt’s work are available at special reduced prices through tomorrow (Friday December 9) only until 4 PM EST/1 PM PST at http://www.screenarchives.com, where TT discs of Conrack (1974, also a Ritt/Ravetch-Frank/Williams triple threat), The Front (1976) and Hombre (1967, another Ritt/Ravetch-Frank collaboration) are offered at 50% off. Look for another memorable Ritt title later in 2017.
Nice piece on Martin Ritt and Stanley & Iris from TT's website and FB page. They advise of another Ritt film later in 2017. Hopefully perhaps The Long Hot Summer. I'd love Hud, but that is Paramount.
Look for another memorable Ritt title later in 2017.[/INDENT]
I'd love to see Hud or The Long Hot Summer as well, but my money is on either Casey's Shadow or even more probably, Murphy's Romance, which are both Sony releases. Also, TT got Sally Field to record a commentary for Places In The Heart, and I bet they try to have her record one for Murphy's if that indeed is the Ritt film they release in 2017.
I have received like 27 Twilight Time blu-rays during the SAE sale. It appears that Twilight Time have a problem with scratches on their disks. I held my breath while opening each one. Three-Four had fairly significant scratches and multiple others had minor scratches. The scratches are usually towards the outside of the disk. Since most of them are quite similar scratches, it makes me wonder what is going on with the disks that is causing it. Hopefully SAE will help me out with this because I am pretty OCD about scratches. I'm confident that there won't be an issue with playback but I want mint disks.
I'd love to see Hud or The Long Hot Summer as well, but my money is on either Casey's Shadow or even more probably, Murphy's Romance, which are both Sony releases. Also, TT got Sally Field to record a commentary for Places In The Heart, and I bet they try to have her record one for Murphy's if that indeed is the Ritt film they release in 2017.
lt could also be The Great White Hope or No Down Payment. A year ago they did not have Murphy's but would like it and indicated Sally Field would love to record a commentary if they do.
I have received like 27 Twilight Time blu-rays during the SAE sale. It appears that Twilight Time have a problem with scratches on their disks. I held my breath while opening each one. Three-Four had fairly significant scratches and multiple others had minor scratches. The scratches are usually towards the outside of the disk. Since most of them are quite similar scratches, it makes me wonder what is going on with the disks that is causing it. Hopefully SAE will help me out with this because I am pretty OCD about scratches. I'm confident that there won't be an issue with playback but I want mint disks.
Scratches are extremely rare for blu-rays. The only one I've ever had was on a disc from the Friday the 13th set and that was tiny. I've never had any issue with any TT discs and I have almost 100 of them. Are you sure you're not just seeing blemishes? Have you tried buffing them out with a lens cloth? I've seen a few of those on discs including one of the Warner Archive discs I just got. They look like scratches on first viewing but come off with a lens cloth.
Scratches are extremely rare for blu-rays. The only one I've ever had was on a disc from the Friday the 13th set and that was tiny. I've never had any issue with any TT discs and I have almost 100 of them. Are you sure you're not just seeing blemishes? Have you tried buffing them out with a lens cloth? I've seen a few of those on discs including one of the Warner Archive discs I just got. They look like scratches on first viewing but come off with a lens cloth.
I used a microfiber cloth. They wouldn't come out. And yes I agree that Blu-ray scratches are very rare but for Twilight Time releases it appears to not be rare because others are having this issue as well.
I used a microfiber cloth. They wouldn't come out. And yes I agree that Blu-ray scratches are very rare but for Twilight Time releases it appears to not be rare because others are having this issue as well.
Unless I've missed something, I've yet to see anyone comment on this thread or any of the individual Twilight Time release threads about scratched discs.
I used a microfiber cloth. They wouldn't come out. And yes I agree that Blu-ray scratches are very rare but for Twilight Time releases it appears to not be rare because others are having this issue as well.
I've got 100 TT releases so far (with more on the way), and have yet to have a problem with scratches. I've had one disc that had a flaw (presumably in the laminate) that caused a read error, but I got it replaced with a copy that worked fine.
I'd love to see Hud or The Long Hot Summer as well, but my money is on either Casey's Shadow or even more probably, Murphy's Romance, which are both Sony releases. Also, TT got Sally Field to record a commentary for Places In The Heart, and I bet they try to have her record one for Murphy's if that indeed is the Ritt film they release in 2017.
The Long, Hot Summer is Fox, so it's just as likely as the Sony titles. Given that they've put out a few Paul Newman titles as well, I would probably guess TLHS as the safe bet.
By the by, don't overlook the Ritt films released by other labels on BD:
Paris Blues and Back Roads from Kino Lorber Studio Classics The Spy Who Came in from the Cold from Criterion Norma Rae from Fox
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